THE SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED 1887
RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
FOUNDED 1896
CONSOLIDATED 1944
THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN
4
One Of Robeson County’s H^omeown Newspapers
Published Thursdays
Fhe Scottish Citizen (Red Springs and Maxton, N. C.),
Thursday, December 12, 1
946
A V.'EEKLY NEWiPAPEW
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS
OF MAXTON—RED j
SPRINGS
PARKTON—ROWLAND
Vol. LVII, No. 49'
Editorial
TURNING ON THE NATURAL GAS
A Christmas Gift Idea
In the open forum today, there
is a letter which is directed to the
folk of Red Springs who are in
terested in a" better library for
their elementary school
This letter is equally
pupils.
applicable
in its appeal to each community
of Robeson County, Your Home-
‘ town paper believes, and we urge
you to read it. It offers a sugges
tion for a community gift at this
Christmastime well within the
reach of everyone, a gift that can
be as small or as large as your
means will allow, and a gift that
will be of lasting value and plea
sure in your community, a gift of
money to provide additional books
4^ for the school library of your
community.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Editor of the Hometown
Newspapers:
Will you please give us room
for a Christmas letter to the peo
ple of Red Springs?
Dear Friends:
Have you finished your Christ
mas shopping! Are you sure?—Do
you have a youngster in the ele
mentary school of Red Springs?
If so, have you thought of the
Christmas cheer you could spread
and the happy, happy new year
you could assure by putting just
one new book’ into the library to
be made available to the 270 young
patrons who find profit and plea
sure' there each week?
Don’t give just any book—no,
but a carefully selected book from
an approved list. If you are inter
ested, decide the amount of mon
ey you would like to spend for this
important gift, and let your child
take it tot the school library where
it would fee spent for a book that
would add-to the usefulness of the
library by -securing a book needed
to make the? library service to
| Againfililible
# For Commissions
Capt^iiji L. R. Robinson,,
. -^ mandirig Officer of the Rocking-
ham ^jb-Staton of the Arna^ Re-
cruiti^ Service, announced today
that .many wartime officers of the
Army of the United States have
taken advantage of the opportun
ity to apply for. a Regular Army
Com-
Commission. The Captain states
that an additional 25,000 Regular
Army officers have been author
ized, and that all wartime . officers
- Of the Army of the United States,
ed to civilian life;, are eligible to
whether on active duty or return-
kpply for one of these appoint
ments. .
Captain Robinson urges all for
mer officers, who are interested in
applying for a Regular Army Com
mission to contact the local sub-
station in Rockingham, where ap
plication forms are available.
applications must be mailed
All
to
Headquarters, Seventh Army, At
lanta 3, Georgia, before December
31, 1946. .
Any former officer, who made
application under previous quotas
and who was disqualified by nhv-
sicai or statutory inenginnity,
may now reappl yif he has become
eligible. These former officers must
observe the December 31 deadline.
f Christmas Lights
For Fairmont Streets
T^mLt^r^ Tom Evans ^eft), 01 the Tennessee Gas and
S ° C 0 ” 1 ^"^ and R - W - Hawkins, divisional superintendent,
at N a h tc’bitn O h enlI i S the u aive ° n 016 com P an y’s main transmission line
at Natchitoches, La., which carries natural gas at a rate of 50 million
cubic feet daily into the “Little Big Inch” pipe line. The gas is being
a^f^ ! he n ? iddle west > where it will help alleviate the fuel short-
t^-- oug 4 M by the current soft coal walkout (International)
Maxton VHP Receives Unexpected
Aid From Surveyor Who Donatos
ServicesTo Aid Building Project
Says VHP Is
Great Gesture
Declaring that the Veterans
Housing Project in Maxton was
the most constructive program
that he had yet heard of to help
the veteran, T. Bi Carraway, ci
vil engineer of Laurinburg, vol
unteered his services free of charge
to the Majxton Chamber of Com
merce and Merchant’s Associa
tion. Mr. paraway, who has been
staking out permanent corners for
the Town of Maxton, devoted the
3?*jE£&SEig££^^ la y‘ n 8
Jiaxton high school and Presbyte-'
rfan Junior College .and . stqke4
out morey’ than* 3d off these “tots'
which i^ill be donated to veterans
signifying their intention to build
homes in Maxton.
“This Veterans Housing Project
reaffirms my faith in humanity,?’
he stated. “It is indeed a beauti
ful gesture and I have told all of
my associates in Laurinburg a-
bout the program. If every city
in the United States could follow
Maxton’s example the veterans
: could not be complaining of ‘goug
ing’ instead of beneficial ad in
their building problems.”
n Mr. Caraway was a warrant of
ficer in the C .E. C. during the
war and has had some 20 years
experience in the work of survey-,
ing and laying out lots. .gUl
Streets have been laid offOthru
the property but it is not known
yet when the Town of Maxton will
begin work on them or when wat
er lines can be installed.
The original housing project was
fostered at Daystrom when Col
onel Barnum found out that ap
proximately 15 veterans were in
terested in building. He approach
ed the members of the Chamber of
Commerce with the idea of bring-
ing these
ton since
preferred
was then
of land
future homes to Max-
most of the
veterans
to build there. The idea
evolved to donate a plot
to those veterans who
Appeal Of Four Robeson Negroes
Fails To Save Lives; Execution
Dato December 27th For Rapisls
Supreme Court Finds
No Error In Trial
Four Negroes from Robeson
county were doomed to death in
the gas chamber yesterday when
the State Supreme Court found
there was no error in the trial
before the Hon. Clawson Williams
in th Robeson Superior Court.
The court’s judgment automati
cally sets the date of their execu
tion for the rape of Mrs. Dorothy
Fry, wife of a CIO labor organiz
er, for December 27, unless an in
tervention in the processes of law
is mad by Gov. R. Gregg .Cherry.
Two of the Negroes, Granger
Thompson, Calvin Covington, and
Three Airlines
investigating
Maxton Field
Stacy Powell, admitted
that they had intercourse
woman, and the fourth,
man, denied having any
in court
with the
Cliff In-
part in
Three large airlines have appli
ed to the Civil Aeronautics Board
at Washington for certificates per
mitting them to use the I^aurin-
burg Maxton Airport, two miles-
from Maxton, according to a let
ter received yesterday by the Max-
ton Chamber of Commerce from
the Chief Examiner of this Board,
Francis W. Brown. As stated in
the letter, an examiner’s report re
garding. this application, and oral
Union Meeting Of
Robeson Baptists
December 19th
The union meeting of the Robe
son Baptist Association is to be
held on Thursday, December 19,
at the Antioch Baptist church,
following program has been
’anged for the meeting.
,0:00 A. M. Song
vice.
10:15 Devotional
lucted by Rhv. E.
■.umberton.
10:30 Church
sussed by Rev.
Lakeview, S. C.
11:15 Sermon
and praise
Exercises.
A. Paul of
Discipline.
The
ar-
s.er-
con-
East
Dis-
E. N. Johnson of
Hester of St. Pauls.
12:00 noon. Dinner.
by Rev. C. R.
1:30
7ice.
1:40
lucted
p. m. Song
uevotionai
by Rev.
and praise ser-
exercises.
C.
J. Ellis
con-
of
Pembroke.
2:00 Miscellaneous
fecting the Union.
matters af-
Rites Are Held For McKay McKinnon,
Maxton Judge And Leader In Church
Work And Civic Affairs In Robeson
Large Crowd Attends
Services Held At
Presbyterian Church
Hundreds of friends and admir
ers gathered at the First Presby
terian Church in Maxton Thursday
morning to pay tribute to McKay
McKinnon, 66, judge of Maxtor
district recorder’s court and for
over a score of years outstanding
leader in community and county
affairs, who died at his home Wed
nesday morning
heart attack.
Services were
at 3 A. M. of a.
Holiday Store
Hours In Maxton
Are Announced
the crime. The three based their
defense on the claim that the af
fair grew out of a case of “com
mercialized vice” and that the
only complaint the prosecutrix had
made when being taken to the
house or during the acts’ was that
she was not paid "the stipulated
prices.”
The woman testified that she
had gone to Lovett Road in the
Negro section with a man other
than her husband to get some li
quor, that the car had broken
down, and while her companion,
Frank Straughn, had gone with
Inman to get help, Thompson,
Covington and Powell forced her
to leave the car and enter an un
finished house where each, includ
ing Inman, who had returned with
out Straughn, assaulted her.
arguments also, have been
by the Board and the case
mitted for final decision.
The applications of these
heard
is sub ¬
2:15
lenge
2:35
three
airlines to use this airport is part
ly the result of letters sent to a
number of large airlines several
months ago by the Maxton Cham-
ber of Commerce setting
the unusual advantages
field, emphasizing the
forth
of this
abundant
Our Training
Union chal-
for 1947. Discussed by Rev.
Anderson of Rowland.
Our Sunday School Goals
for 1947. Discussed by Rev.
Paul Deaton of Parkton.
McKAY McKINNON
held at eleven
o'clock and were conducted by his
pastor, Rev T. Layton Fraser, as
sisted by his former pastor, Rev.
E. G, and-Wilbur Jones, chair-
 man and member of the street
lighting committee', have assured a
Robeson County Hometown Press
reporter that the^city of Fairmont
^ a ^ e Quately lighted during
the Christmas season.
in? pecial Christm us lights are be-
ing procured from Durham bv
? Russel Electric and these Lights.
when strung across main street
will give a festive air to Faff’
mont. - 1
would and could build within a
certain length of time! Members
of the Merchants Association do
nated the funds to purchase a
tract of land, large enough to be
subdivided into many building lots.
Since the veterans now working
at Daystrom are responsible for
the birth of the VHP and since it
is believed they will be able to
build sooner, since Colonel Barn
um has announced that the plant
will aid in procuring building ma
terial these men will have first
choice of lots. Members o fthe Mer
chants Association think this is the
only fair way of distributing the
land.
The remaining lots will be dis-
tributed from the Chamber
The Scottish Citizen
Red Springs, N. C.
Telephone 305-1
Maxton, N. C.
Telephone 59-W
Dougald Coxe Publisher
Ren MacKinnon Maxton Editoi
Commerce office. A registration
date will be announced and veter
ans will be given applications in
the first come, first served man
ner.”
There are two stipulations to the
procuring of a lot: (1)
an assumes the taxes
chooses his lot and (2)
must be started within
and finished within
the veter-
when he
the house
12 months
Subscription Rates
1 Year
6 Months
3 Months .. -
$2.00
1.00
.65
two years.
Deeds will be given after work is
started on the individual houses.
C. A. Hasty is in charge of sur
veying arrangements and also the
distribution of veterans applica
tions while Marshall James has
been made trustee and will issue
the deeds to the lots.
Published Every’ Wednesday
$ Entered at the Post Office at
i Red Springs, N. C.. as second
^ass mail matter.
Block Island, lying off Rhode Is-
■ land, was named for the Dutch
I navigator, Adriaen Block, who ex-
iplored the coast in 1614.
In order to give shoppers from
Maxton and its trade territory
abundant opportunity to select
their Christmas gifts, the Merch
ants Association of Maxton an
nounces that the following clos
ing hours will be observed by Max-
ton retail establishments during
'ingrthirt.^
-.(hi Wednesday, Thursday and'
Friday, December 18, 19 and 20,
all stores will close at this custom
ary hour of nine o’clock.
Monday and Tuesday evenings,
December 23 and 24, all stores will
remain open until 10 o’clock to ac
commodate those last minute shop-
pers who always forget
Christmas is so near.
On both Christmas Day and
day following, December 26,
Maxton retail establishments
be closed.
The Merchants Association
that
the
all
will
has
also announced that those annual
holidays to be observed hereafter
will Include July 4, Thanksgiving
Day and Christmas Day. The de
cision regarding Armistice Day is
deferred until an agreement
reached with, the merchants
nearby communities regarding
observauce.. '
Guard Unit
ForMaxton
Discussed
of
its
A letter from the Adjutant Gen-
eraffof the State of North Carolina
was read at the meeting of the
Maxton Town Board on Monday
night andi the possibility of organ
izing a National Guard unit in
Maxton was discussed by members
of the board.
To organize an effective unit
there must be over 50 men inter
ested in the program. The num-
.Teh a unit would be limit-
d to 115 with age limits extend
ing from 18 years o 45 years
Mayor F. C. Frostick led
the
discussions and board member
seemed to agree that Maxton is
loo small at this time to organize
such a unit. However, if sufficient
interest is generated, the size of
the town would have little bearing
on the matter. A number of vet
erans have been contacted and
were not overly-enthusiastic about
the proposed National Guard Unit.
Board members suggested a list
of names of men who were officer^
in World War II and might be
interested in serving in officer ca-
Pa ^ ity ml f £uch a unit were organ-
zed. There would be in. the unit
hree officers. Mr. Frostick is plan-
tQ i c ° ntact these veterans and,
i nd out their ideas concerning the
organization of a unit.
If any veterans or other persons
are interested in seeing such a
unit come into being in Maxton.
members of the. town board and
the mayor will be very glad to
discuss the matter at any time.
Experiments by Italian chemists
in the preservation of milk have
revealed that the addition of a
small quantity of hydrogen pero
xide kills the bacteria that causes
souring and is said to improve the
[flavor of the milk.
Messiah Friday
Nigt At FM(
Handel’s “Messiah” will be
pre-
sented Friday night by the Civic
Choral Society of Red Springs in
the auditorium of Flora Macdon-
aMpollege.
elude-' -T^bert Topping, tenor,
Frances Lehnerts, contralto, Maury
Pearson, bass, and Clara Bailey
Robeson, soprano. Accompaniment
will be by Mrs. Topping, organist,
and Mrs. James D. McLean, pian
ist. There will be seventy^five
voices in the chorus under the di
rection of Robert Reuter.
This is the first concert of the
society which was organized this
fall, and indications are that there
will be a capacity audience
the presentation of this famed
atorio.
COMMANDER AUSTEN
ON NORFOLK STATEN
Lt. Cdr. James Austin, Jr.,
for
or-
bus-
band of Mrs. Crystal Henderson
Austin of 201 West 17th St., Lum
berton, N. C., is stationed at the
Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Va.,
as an instructor in electronics.
Lt. Cdr. Austin entered Naval
service in October, 1939, and re
ceived his basic training at Pensa-
Navy he graduated from the Nni-
versity of North Carolina.
hangar space, unequalled concrete
runways, and modern aircraft ma
chine shop.
This particular’ application ha;,
been included by the Bosfrd in the
proceeding which includes plane
for the -greatly increased air trans
portation for the entire southeast
ern section of the country. The
demand for- this additional service
in this section has been growing
in volume and persistence for
some months.
Names of the airlines appllying
for certificates for use of the Max-
ton Airport are the Southeast Air
lines, Atlantic and Carolina Air
ways Co., and Piedmont Aviation
Inc.
Huston B. (ox
To Be Awarded
Three Medals
Ceremony Tuesday
At Pembroke For
Lumberton Man
Huston B. Cox, Indian ex-GI
of
Guest Speaker
At Baptist Church
The Rev. John Barbee will
be
vre-gwWfrrtspeaker at the Maxton
Baptist church on Sunday even
ing, December 15, at 7:30 o'clock.
Rev. Barbee spoke in Maxton two
years ago in a revival meeting and
made a great impression on the
many church members and friends
of the church that heard him. Well
known in this area, he has a
of friends in Maxton and the
rounding communities.
Mr. Barbee is a graduate of
host
sur-
Bob
Jones college and of Duke univer
sity. A cordial invitation is ex
tended by the church to all friends
to worship together and hear this
outstanding speaker on Sunday
night.
“Bits” Snoddy
The many friends of W. M.
(Bits) Snoddy will be glad to know
he is making a satisfactory recov
ery following a length illness at
Veterans hospital, Richmond, Va.
“Bits” will leave th ehospital with
in the next few days and will
spend the Christmas holidays with
his sister, Mrs. W. D .Weaver, and
her family in Clay Bank, Virginia.
Presbyterian Junior College Glee
Club Gives Christmas Vesper Pgm.
At College Auditorium On Tuesday
Solos Given By
Leckie, Bryson
And G. E. Dixon
A Christmas Vesper Service
was held in the college chapel at
Presbyterian Junior College on
Tuesday evening, December; 10, at
eight o’clock.
Using the biblical script^
Matthew and Luke as aS
ence the following
rendered: “Joy to
as
es of
a 'refer ¬
progr:
the
Handel and “O Come J
Faithful” by the male
1 was
orld”,
U Ye
torus;
me first neor? and "ujHoiy
Night,” Aden, by the male -chorus
with a tenor solo by A. B. Jackie;
male chorus with a tenor Solo by
Herman Bryson; "O Littlef Town
of Bethlehem,” Redner, anA “‘God
Rest you Merry, Gen^emen,"
English, by the male qharfette.
G. E. Dixon then sang the be
loved anthem, “The Hol^ City,"
Adams. The two carols, “It bame
Upon the Midnight Clear’; and
nark the Herald Angels sing"
were then heard with the con-
greation standing during the sing
ing of the latter.
Dr. Louis C. LaMotte, President
of PJC, closed the Christmas pro
gram with a prayer. ’
May Kareis Daring is director
of the college glee club and their
work on Tuesday evening showed
a great deal of preparation and
able direction. R. E. Lunney was
the ^student accompanist, Ellis
Joyner was narrator and Rex All-
red was the able student director
The male quartette includes A
B. Leckie, Herman J. Bryson, J
Reid Howard and Robert Taylor
Wade Taylor, , c. L. Legerton.
Charles Conard Caldwell, Charles
H. Cothran, Jr., Thomas L. Mas-
ton, Winston R. Maxwell, Loyd
, Bryson, James Kegan, narrf
Smith, Edward Kissam, Lindsaj
Baker, Rex Allred, Empie Bunce
Jr., J. Reid Howard, Robert Jack-
son, Herman J. Bryson, G. E.
Dixon, Phillip Dunford, A. B.
Leckie, Samuel Avery Dick, Ralph
G. Wall and'Charles Bean.
On 'the same prdogram for the
Christmas Vesper Service was a
note from Presbyteian Junior Col
lege expressing appreciation to all
’he friends who are assisting in
’he Campaign for Endowment
Funds.
Christmas Seals
Anyone
Chris Imas
requesteii
Thompson
desiring to purchase
Tuberculosis seals is
to contact
in Fairment..
will be delivered.
Mr. Thompson, who is
Paul
Seals
vice-
president of Robeson county Tu
berculosis Association, is in
charge of the Christmas season
drive for this worthy cause in
South Robeson and urges all who
are able to make contributions
as soon as possible.
John H. McKinnon of Concord.'
Active pall bearers were: G.
Henderson, C. A. Hasty, A.
Greene, H. A. McKinnon, M.
Biles and Laughlin McKinnon,
P.
Ci
Jr.
Negro Escapee Is
Arresled On First
Degree Charge
Order Investigation
In Six-Man Escape
Lumberton, will be awarded four
medal sat a public ceremony to be
held Tuesday, December 17, at 7:30
p. m. at the Indian State College
at Pembroke, it was stated today
by Capt. L. R. Robinson, of the
Army Recruiting service office at
Rockingham.
Awards to be made to the form
er member of the 103rd Infantry
who served as a T-5 in the medi
cal detachment of the 409th regi
ment are: the Silver Star, the
Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and
an oak-leaf clustei' in lieu of an
other Purple Heart.
Commander J. A. Sampson of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post of, Pembroke will be program
chairman, and Judge L. R. Varser
Lumberton attorney, will make the
principal address of the occasion.
Awards will be presented by Capt.
Robinson. Officials of the several
veterans organizations of the
county will have places on the pro-
gram.
The citations for the several
wards are as follows:
SILVER STAB MEDAL
“For gallantry in action. On
16
of
November 1944, in the vicinity
-—France, Private Cox crawled
25 yards under heavy machine gun
fire to administer aid to a wound
ed comrade. The fire was so low
that he had to remain in a prone
position to administer aid^ but he
completed the task and then as
sisted the wounded man to safety.
Again he went through the same
intense fire to give aid to another
man who was seriously wounded.
A shott time later, upon learning
that a comrade had been wound-
he ran and crawled over the same
ed and was trapped in a building,
area, drawing heavy machine gun
mortar and sniper fire, and admin
istered aid. Private Cox’s gallant
and completely unselfish actions
were an inspiration to the entire
unit.
BRONZE STAR MEDAL
“For heroism in action
20 March 1945, near a
man
was wounded by hostile sniper fire
as Company "K” occupied the low-
Techn — °I an enem y-heId hill.
Technician Cox; although attached
to another platoon, dashed to the’
wounded man and, disregarding
mi 1P - ei i fire direc te dat him, acL
nistered aid. Technician Cox
then carried the casualty down the
slope wher ethe wounded man was
immediately evacuated to the aid
station. His actions reflected the
servtoe ” radltlons ° f the milit ary
PURPLE HEART MEDAL
in ^ 0unds received in action
in the European Theatre of Oper-
Tl™ ns ° n 15 Dece mber 1944
1ST OAK LEAF CLUSTER
in thl 2^ ounds received in action
in the European Theatre of Oper
ations on 20 March 1945” P
In addition to the above decora
tions he is entitled to the follow
ing awards: ° W
Good Conduct Medal: American
Theatre Ribbon; European Afri
can-Middle Eastern Theatre Rib-’
bon with two Bronze Service Stars
for Rhineland and Central Europe
Campaigns; World War II Victory
Ribbon, and Combat Medical Badge
House Sale
C. A. Hasty, trustee for the State
Bank, has announced that Dr. B.
Fred Ford has purchased the Har-
rill home on the Maxton-Red
Springs highway. Dr. Ford will
take possession of the property af
ter the first of, the year. Purchase
price was undisclosed.
John Henry Harris, who escaped
fro mthe Bladen county prison
camp Tuesday, night, was taken
into custody in Lumberton early
this morning by city police ,and
booked on a first degree burglary
charge. He was captured while in
the building of the Sanitary Clean-
ers.
Harris,
made no
another
when cornered by police
attempt to escape, while
man near the building
when the police patrol car stop
ped, quickly disappeared. The bur
glars were, discovered by Roy
Shooter, who was sleeping in an
adjoining room, heard sounds of
men moving about in the plant.
Shooter went out the building and
stopped the patrol car and the of
ficers made the arrest. Harris is
now in the Lumberton jail, and is
expected to be given a preliminary
hearing Friday on the burglary
charge. He readily admitted his
name and told them he was one of
six who escaped from the prison
camp Tuesday night.
An investigation was ordered to
day into the brazen six-man es
cape from the state?s prison camp-
in Bladen county when the six Ne
groes sawed their confining bars
from a cage-type barracks without
interference from the guards.
The probe was ordered by Clyde
O. Robinson, prison director, who
stated that two guards should have
been on duty, and that the noise
of sawing the bars should have
easily been heard by them. Re
ports fro mthe camp, located ■ a
few miles from Elizabethtown,
state that the escape of the men
was not discovered until morning.
This camp is on of six cage camps
now used by the state, and is con-
sidered unsightly, unsanitary
suspectible ’ to escapes.
and
Glee Club Will
Present Program
Sunday Evening
On Sunda yevening, . December
15, the Fairmont high school glee
club, under the direction of Miss
Julia Burton, will present a Christ
mas program- at the First Baptist
church at 7:30 o’clock.
The glee club is made up of 42
students and features three solo
ists: Zelma Grantham, Betty Hedg-
peth and Ima Joyce Huggins.
Miss Ruth Alford will be organ
ist for the special program which
will include the following num
bers: O Come All Ye Faithful, The
Birthday of a King, While Sheph
erds "Watched Their Flocks, Jesu
Bambino, We Three Kings, O Holy
Night, Virgin Slumber Song, Sleep
Holy Child, Joy to the World, Hol
ly and Ivy, and Hark the Herald
Angels Sing.
Tobacco Workers
End Strike At
Lumberton Plant
wofKers or me vvi.neneaa-a.n-
derson tobacco redryihg plant re
turned to their jobs Tuesday af
ternoon with the second shift, to
end a week’s walkout due to fail
ure to reach an agreement on a
contract between workers
management.
It was stated that work
and
was
proceeding as usual today, though"
no contract agreement had been
reached and the 150 employes had
returned to their jobs after noti
fying the management of their de
sire to return to work.
Honorary pall bearers irciudod
attending physicians, Dr. B. Fred
Ford and Dr. R. D. Croora, Jr. and
officers of the First Presbyterian
Church, of which Mr. McKmnuh
was a ruling elder. Interment was
in the Oak Grove cemet i; z of Max-
ton. Mrs. Mayme McQueen, assist
ed by many friends of the family,
was in charge of floral arrange
ments. ■ .
Mr. McKinnon son of the late
McKay McKinnon and Grace Haw
ley McKinnon, was born on. Jan
uary 6, 1880 near Maxton and spent
his entire life in this section of the
state. On April 27, 1904 he married
Miss Annie James of Sampson
County.
His business career was ch efly
concerned with three firms al
though Mr. McKinnon had ex
tensive farming interests. He was
a partner in McKinnon, Currie &
Co., specializing in general live
stock sales. He pc.chased Mr. Cur
rie’s interest and renam’d the firm
McKay McKinnon Later he be
came associated with Aera.” Manu
facturing C. and served as dis
trict representative in this area for
many years, a position he held at
the time of his death.
Mr. McKinnon’s record of service
to the town of Maxton, to Robeson
County and to the Pi esbyterian
Church is one of jofig service and
many testing achievements. He has
served as chairman of the Robe
son county democ.’a’.ic committee,
chairman of the county board of
elections, mayor of Maxten, trustee
of Flora MacDonald College, chair
man of the Maxton School Board,
served three different terms as
superintendent of the Presbyterian
Sunday School in Claxton is a
past master of the Masonic Lodge
and a former pros' lent of the Mey-
max Club. ''*• ,
He was recognized as a leader
in ciyie affairs and commanded
thg respect and admiration jf^11
who came in contact with him. On
the last Sunday in November he
was presented a gold wrist watch
^ members of the Presbyteian
Sunday School and Church in ap
preciation for his fine record’of
continuous service to the ciunrh.
Mr.
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McKinnon was iscog.fired as
of Maxton’s most able citizens
his opinion concerning mat-
pertaining io the community
always highly regarded. Pis
friends in Robeson and Sootlatid
county and in North Carolina are
legion as witnessed by the large
crowd that gathered at the ebuich
on Thursday morning fpr the rites
and by the tremendous bank of
beautiful floral arrangements. 1
Mr. McKinnon was taken critica
lly ill on Sunday night. He died
early Wednesday morning, the last
male member of a family of six
brothers and two sisters. His death
came as a blow to Maxton and
Robeson County that will be hard
to overcome and thoughts of his
ideals, of his daily acts of kind
ness and the inspiring life he led
will be long in the memory of the
people of Maxton. ‘
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Miss Annie James of Sampson
County two sons McKay McKinnon
Jr. of New York and Oliver Pl
McKinnon of Portsmouth, Va., one,
daughter, Miss Ann Elizabeth Mc
Kinnon of the home; two sisters
Mrs. F. L. Ball of Hamlet and Mrs.
J. H. Culclasure of Swansea, S. C.,
two foster sons, Lt. Col. S. H. Mc
Kinnon of Alamagordo, lew Mex
ico and Dr. W. J. McKinnon of
Wadesboro, a daughter-in-law of
the home, Mrs. J. H. McKinnon
and four grandchildren, J. H.
Kinnon, Jr., Linda, Frances
Katherine Ann McKinnon.
Rev. and Mrs. Carl H. King
Mc-
and
and
children, Carl, Jr., and Billy, of •
Salisburg, were recdwt guests of .'
Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Rrevatte. '